Education: Give Them Their Heads

Soon after the U.S. Air Force opened its missile test center near
Melbourne. Fla. (pop. 14,500), Principal Frank Brown of the Melbourne
High School found himself facing an unusual problem. The children of
the center's scientists and engineers had absorbed so much knowledge at
home that the school's regular science program was highly inadequate.
Even the addition of an electronics course failed to satisfy them. Then
last spring one of Brown's teachers got an idea for a way to take care
not only of the knowledgeable newcomers but also of Melbourne children
with unusual talent: why not set up a volunteer...